#kardiatype

[alterhuman-positivity]

People with alterhuman identities that aren't strictly nonhuman have just as much place in the community as anyone else. If you're entirely human, or human as well as nonhuman, or even aspecies or something more nuanced--you're important, you're valued, and you're still alterhuman.

Share your experiences more often, if you'd like. The tags might be mainly filled with posts about nonhumanity, but that doesn't mean that your identity should be kept quiet! Be proud of who you are, humanity and all included.

[that-dreaming-dragon]

Media Representation and (a rant on) Draconity

I think it's natural to want to find something within the media that represent and reflects yourself. As a dragon, the option might seem like quite a few within various sources of media, but the realities are that I and my various alterhuman identities are not the typical or commonly seen dragons.

As myself, I'm orange, furred, white feathered wings, yellow horns, and the vibrant red belly. Those are not things you find common in animals, even amongst birds, that's some colors that don't exactly flow together. People drawn inspiration from around their world to create, people are also creature of comfort and habit--with the idea of dragon being "fire breathing, bat winged, scaly lizard" or "scale with mane, elemental control and sometimes deity, serpentine wyrm", and then variations based off of that, perhaps scaled beast with feathery wings, or great furred wyrm with webbed wings and fire breathing. Seriously what is with the fire breathing? Have I mention that I'm a shapeshifting sort of dragon? While that is often tied to the eastern sort of draconic beings, my exact combination of dragons are far and few in between. Even the dutch angel dragon within the furry community has certain limitation and character traits that don't align with me. If I hadn't got turned off by the idea of looking anywhere or being misidentify as a horse, I might have find myself drawn to the dutch angel dragon as a sort of maybe paratype, or just friendly dragons that I share similar traits with. But alas.

Every single piece of media or fictional source that has a representation I can find brings me joy. Games centered on collecting dragons like Flight Rising or Dragon Cave does a great job of acknowledging that diversity. I get especially grumpy when dragon maker only has webbed wings and scaly body. At one point I really did not want to put the 3D dragon maker by Dragonita on my Alterhuman Shifts and Self Discovery Tools guide (ohh, guess I finally got a name). You can call me petty however you want, but I was not very happy of something that denies my existence. I'm a strong advocate for draconic diversity, because I am not alone in being "unusual" sort of dragons. Nobody should feel like this, unseen. Dealing with the constant "he or she" as someone nonbinary is more than enough, thank you very much. I feel like as alterhuman, hell, even just within the confine of draconic community or even smaller the dragonkind community, there should be a sort of basic understanding that "dragon" is a abstract term. Like "what is human", "what is dragon" should be a default and nobody gets to decide who is or isn't dragon. To touch back onto what I wrote on Day 1 of this challenge, alterhumanity is a experience, it is a feeling, it is vague and abstract, it is something you know within your essence, or one day you will awaken to it. A dragon is all of that. I did end up finally putting the 3d builder on my guide. I will still prefer Lukas Sotrmskull's Dragon builder though.

Before I let my thought get away from me, lets talk about my other alterhuman identities.

The other side of the spectrum, when you have a almost exact match in sources that are well known, you end up keep getting mistaken as it. My kardiatype looks very alike to Haku from Spirited Away. It gets frustrating when I bring up my kardiatype, and people immediately go "oh, Haku!" It's the same problem with people seeing my self protrait and call that a horse or a goat. Seriously, is like people don't recognize a basic dragon head shape if it isn't scaled and spiked. Horses are neat, goat is fine, and Haku is a very cool dragon. But my kardiatype was not Haku. I'd argue that he was just your generic Japanese storm dragon that may or may not be local deity. Wild thought huh. I like that I get to see glimpse of that dragon through Haku, but I would really rather not deal with yet another case of misidentification in the form of "close enough". My human english name got enough of that treatment.

Amongst my other draconic identities, I have a vague-flicker of Flammie from the mana series. The vaguetype feeling has components of paratype within, precisely due to myself being the sort of dragon I am. Belly plate aside, Flammie looks very close to me. And with my discovery of how suggestive my wing count may be (currently in shifts of at least 4), Flammie is definitely a big contender for media representation of myself.

When it comes to intensionally created identity, me and Akumu, my headmate/mirror self, collectively linked a vaguetype of Aurelion Sol. Now, Aurelion Sol has nothing alike to me, maybe the color is more align with Akumu's, but generally, the eastern noodle form is my least favorite to partake in. It feels like a responsibility, and things are just heavier in a way when I'm in that form. It doesn't have to make much sense. Perhaps I will delve into this one day. One can argue we formed the link due to our kardiatype. But really, it happened because that's the one dragon we were really drawn to (and attempted to main) while playing League, and well, there were two others who were shyvana and smolder respectively, and we wanted to complete the draconic of LoL set for shits and giggles. There not much need to find a representation, because we are the exact representation from the source. But wait, we identify with the concept stage where people dub "unbound form" of Sol. Whelp, guess we gotta look elsewhere again.

It feels like I'm trying to start a topic and well, rant on draconity got me all over the place.

Sometimes it really is a exercise in patience. The more unique you are, the harder it is to find representation. Wouldn't change myself for the world though, I love my uniqueness, and I appreciate how crazily varied dragons can be. Or any other sort of creatures or identities or experiences. Life is wonderful like that.

[nebulabasket]

I mapped out my alterhuman identities.

(The sliders are in arbitrary positions as it's meant to show how my kintypes fluctuate; which I imagine kind of like a soundboard. The grey box next to "doll trapped" is a checkbox.)

I learned a lot of new terms and concepts at Othercon and have done a lot of reflecting and introspecting. I've finally officially decided to be a catlinker and I've reconsider my stance that the term "therian" doesn't apply to me. I've decided that it does.I've also come to the realization that it feels kind of like my light kintype has its own kintypes due to a panelist mentioning a nesting doll kintype situation. I don't believe my alterhumanity has anything to do with past lives personally (the octoling kardiatype is due to basically what I would describe as a parallel life that's been manifested into CyanTide (previself party member)), but I'm sure there could be other causes. Maybe more parallel lives. I'm pretty sure that's the case with my aliedragon (MoonLighter) kintype, as manifested in Glow Bright (previme party member).

Also, I don't have a good term for when I'm trapped in a doll. It's not a kintype or a paratype or a hearttype or a hearthome or anything. My anymic glitchy kintype is kind of like a spirit and a specter, but it's not a ghost. Even still, it's like sometimes it's bound to this old doll and gets trapped inside against its will. Not always, though. Sometimes I fel like this feeling bleeds through to my altereldritch form.

Shout out to u/GhostOrchidGynoid on Reddit for coining the term alterfae (https://www.reddit.com/r/alterhuman/s/uRxk7tnKpE) and the alie- prefix; I am expanding their definitions past just fae for my altereldritch, alterkitsune, and aliedragon kintypes.

Feel free to ask me about any unfamiliar terms.

~ 🍭 Cyannide Lolypop 🍭

[maxbeta360]

I’m thinking I might be Minecraft Steve but in a flickertype way. Or in some other sense where it’s not completely me as a whole

I only feel like Steve when I’m playing Minecraft & zoning out while doing so. Outside of Minecraft, I feel like normal me, Hence my flickertype theory

I’ve heard about the term Kardiatype which means you were a [character/animal] in a past life that you don’t really consider to be you now, but it is still rooted in your identity one way or another

I really feel like Steve was the start of me back in 2012 when I first formed. (I’m an introject) Later on I just kind of morphed into the me today (Master Chief)

but I’m still doing some digging on that feeling. I take a really long time before I come to a conclusion on my fictionself because I really do take it seriously

[sparkylurkdragon]

I was having a chat with @that-dreaming-dragon about otherheartedness, which I'm still trying to wrap my head around, and we had this exchange that they thought summarized things well.

Ryuu: One metaphor I use for heartedness is that, my kinity is my heart (the irony XD), my kardiatype is my bone, and my hearttype is my value, my memories, my preference. Things that are not me, but also part of who I am.

Sparky: Ah...! So, if I'm understanding correctly: your kinity is who you are, your kardiatype is what builds you, and your heartedness is who you aspire to be, kind of?

Ryuu: yep! Heartedness is a bit of fuzzy area, something important, so connected to you, yet not who you are

Ryuu: That summarize the three pretty succintly in a simple way

[angelic-polar-fox]

I had contemplated a hearttype being potentially a kardiatype, and today I'm thinking about it again, it might be more likely to remain a hearttype that's a past life (if it were) than to be called a kardiatype. I have a kardiatype, and the feelings I have about it is different than my hearttype, which, while being potentially a past life, is not the **structure** of who I am as a whole. What do you think? As the one who coined Kardiatype/Empeiríatype

Well, firstly I think whatever feels more correct to you should be the term you use.

Secondly, yes. This difference you describe is kind of the reason I couned the term in the first place. So it would probably make more sense to not call this other hearttype also a kardiatype.

[aestherians]

Hey~ Is it okay to ask about your kardiatype? As the coiner I'm still struggeling how to write down a solid definition, especially when it comes to psychological kardiatypes

My kardiatype is Emily Jones from the now-discontinued Elvendale franchise.

I'm not sure how to describe my relationship with her. I was stuck in a questioning loop for years because I genuinely felt like I was her. Past tense. At no point have I felt like I'm currently her, but the deja vu-like feelings I get when I watch the webisodes is impossible to ignore. I don't necessarily miss Elvendale or Emily's friends there, but it feels like I should miss them, like I have known them once. I also have a couple of specific noemata/interpretations that don't necessarily lign up with canon (I couldn't finish watching the Netflix series because it was too different. I'm a webisodes kind of creature).

I don't know how else to describe it. It feels like a past life. Except, I don't believe in fictional reincarnation, so I've concluded that my brain made up a past life experience. It's not much different from having psychological parallel lives, though I guess there isn't a lot of writing on that either.

Same base experience as spiritual folks, just... non-spiritual

[starsailor-kinthepast]

For those unaware, I've recognized a version of Peter Pan as a kardiatype. Delighted to tell you all this, because it fills my heart with joy to accept it <3 It's all rather wonderful. Feel free to ask me questions about this if you want ^^

[digidrakncreature]

Some Digimorph Thoughts

Before reading this imagine that every sentence begins with "I think maybe"

Don't know if I was specifically a mutant but I think my entire colony was mutated some generation before me. Like our hive was just on top of some magic stone or something.

Lived underground like ants/termites tunnels and chambers

ate mushrooms and ... moles? rats? some sort of digging rodents. and also these natural crystals that were definitely some sort of collectable.

We went on gathering/hunting trips. I liked apples. I liked outside. I liked the sky.

We were either a low level kind of fodder enemy or an upgraded version of that mob. Shapeshifters. We could have been mimics, maybe. I don't know. I know only that I'm a terrible mimic, myself, and probably hadn't been good at it then either.

I left my colony for the sky, for exploration, for adventure and apples.

We didn't raise our young. I think maybe all our eggs were placed in the same chamber – nobody knew if any gobbler was their spawn or not. (Gobbler = accidental term I'd made once that fits, they eat a lot to pupate.)

It was considered important to try to procreate at least a little to continue the colony. So I made 1 egg – by myself – our spawn are basically randomized traits that can be created by 1 to 3 of us, depending on how big a pool of traits you wanted that drawing to have. I left the egg and I left the colony.

Was that the catalyst for my code being corrupted? Or did I already have a glitch that caused me to go against what I was programmed to be? It doesn't really matter, end result is the same, and it's not like any of us had any actual choices. The programmers would just make a copy and go down every path anyway.

There was a tiger. It wasn't the same shape as tigers are here. Longer legs, shorter body, I think she might have been a humanoid tigerfolk. I think she might have been the adventurer I chose to travel with.

Just having feelings about:

- being a low level enemy in a videogame — imagine we were just living our lives sitting on some plot relevant item and an adventurer or team of adventurers could have just wiped us out just to get to the stupid thing that we didn't even know was there and didn't need or want

- living underground. digging

- living in a sort of hive society???

[that-dreaming-dragon]

this is such a wonderful road map of your personal alterhuman journey. A beautiful post!

It’s interesting, I myself took a bunch of pieces and found myself after having the core part, the color orange. In fact, finding orange is a bit similar to how Daski finds deir whole selves. I first find red, and then yellow, and then orange finally made sense. Once again joke on being orangekin. But after that, I jumped straight to my core form dragon.

I think from that point, instead of funneling puzzle pieces to build the whole of who I am, I went more into discovery of new path. Which is a form of transience of identity, but also growth of personal understanding of one’s identity, evolution.

The Transitory Nature of Identity

it's natural for one's identity to shift, to reimagine itself through the years, especially as one begins to understand themselves more as they age.

we talk a lot in the community about "what if the id is temporary--!" and there's a lot of folk who are scared that things *are* transitory, when it shouldnt be a scary thing!

it feels a little like baring my soul, but i want to share my identity progression with y'all as an example that even those who seem to have figured their shit out, only look that way because they've had time to get a grasp on who they are!

(cut because it's long lol lots of images)

before i was daski, i was Sewreel. a wolf/dragon hybrid shapeshifting goddess of destruction. for reasons that are way too long for this already long post, we Split--she was her and i was me, and yet we were the same person, an alter ego if you will. and yet, you can see where while i've always been a dragon, a canid, a shapeshifter, and a goddess in some faculty, the form it took was very different!

this is the very first iteration of me as daski, i'm the orange canid.

due to a change in how my phantom limbs felt, i changed what "i" looked like, sort of rapid style.

..tbh i dont remember why i started using the kyuubi form, other than i liked it? lol

in amongst the stumbling through forms i enjoyed being portrayed as, i found the one that y'all might be most familiar with: the destructor dragon, the serpentine goddess that led me to finding the alterhuman community.

who, even then, went through some "form finding" to figure out what felt like me!

but i didnt stop there. the signature on most of these you see is based off of my incorporating the odd instincts of wanting to be fluffy with being a noodle

during all this time, i was still messing around with other forms as well, ones i didnt realize until later that were incredibly important to my identity.

i still cant believe how close to an indoraptor i got with this one. it's incredible.

i tested out my affiliation with water as a dragon, as well

Until we get up to today!

the ultimate culmination and understanding of where i've come from, and what i've found i've liked through the years. you can physically see how each transformation has lent itself into the next iteration.

each and every step of the way has been important, and while i may not currently identify with the steps i took to get here, they were all intrinsic and important stepping stones to understand how and why im me. i thank each form for the comfort and understanding that it gave to me, and i would be less of myself today had i not had each and every one of these forms as a part of my journey!

[that-dreaming-dragon]

"Alterhuman"

Maybe we should talk about how alterhuman doesn't just mean nonhuman identify-as stuff.

Because it's meant to cover more than that. It's for otherkind, therian, fictionfolk. It's for 'linkers, hearted people, those with flicker and cameos. It includes kardiatype, paratype, vaguetype experiences. It's both nonhuman and human-to-the-left, or even broader like archetrope. And so many more.

Some have been using it as something exclusive for too much when it has always meant to be something inclusive.

[starsailor-kinthepast]

Hiii! We're admittedly still trying to understand the concept of kardiatypes, what made you realise your most recent identity? :D - Alex

My journey with Peter Pan started when I saw the 2003 movie, a day went by, and I said, out loud, "oh fuck."

Kinfeels :tm:

The ones you just... can't explain. The ones that dig deep and make you FEEL things of unreasonable amounts. The ones that make things seem familiar, and right.

Now, I could technically call Pan a kintype for the time being, but I'm fairly sure it would become a kardiatype later on. See, the difference is that a kintype is something you currently identify as, a kardiatype is something you used to identify as (more commonly, a past life you no longer identify as).

I have a good amount of past lives I don't identify as anymore (in the way that I was them, but then I experienced other things and changed into a different version; the way I don't identify as the child I once was, within this life), so it was very much like holding up swatches of colors and seeing what fit, what matched, what was similar, what was different. A lot of experiences just aligned and made sense!

Though, it took me a few weeks to get there. There was denial and uncertainty for a while there.

Let me know if you'd like me to elaborate further on my kardiatypes and how I experience them, rather than in the lense of this particular 'type!! I appreciate the ask <3

[shredded-feathers]

Oh my god

I think… I found Guardian Gloria? Maybe??

All I know is this… thing… that’s not supposed to be able to follow me around keeps following me around… and is weirdly …extroverted? for what it is… and…

I’m jumping to conclusions. It’s probably not.

But… still… the life span… the tenacity… it… fits?… I think?

I’m not gonna say what I think They’ve become because I don’t know if this is what They had in mind or if They’d be embarrassed or what but like

Goddamn

Good to see… whoever this is… again

Not a long life span to be back together but I hope I can help make that life a good one. They’ve already helped me tonight. I kinda owe it to Them regardless of who it is, I guess, haha

[that-dreaming-dragon]

Noemata and Exomemories

I don’t really get much exomemories. Not from other lives at least. Depends on when and how you or I count lucid dream world, it’d be a toss up for me to call all of them exomemories, but I also wouldn’t say some of them aren’t. It gets fuzzy at time whether it truly is just made up chaos from mind, or if it has been a view into a different world. Sometimes they felt like that.

The dream I talked about last day has a bit of element of exomemories in there. How much? I do not know.

Other moments where I have exomemories are from vision. This was me doing a group guided mediation, and I sort of fell asleep, but then.

Thunder booming, flashing, the storm raging. The sky is dark, and the ocean is wailing. Peeking through the clouds, a sliver of form, a white dragon darting in and out of the storm clouds.

I don’t actually know if it was indeed my kardiatype, but there is a inkling of it being true, so I’d like to think so. And based on that, I do think they have a storm based power. Just like your typical generic east asian dragon. (You can see I have a lot of gripe of my kardiatype being seen as Haku)

You can say the rest of the thing I figured or theorized are based off of the exomemories, I would call some of them noemata, even if a bit wobbly. Because how am I sure my kardiatype was a prince of the ocean? To be honest, I’m not certain either. Sometimes there are just things we don’t or can’t know about our identitype, and that’s okay, their significance and for the identification ones, our self identifications, do not diminish just because we end up having created element within. After all, the phrase “to make memories” is not just a metaphor. You are “living, doing, creating, experiencing.”[1]

Talk about created memories vs exomemories. I also had a flash of vision with my hearttype that confused me to no end, because while it is a possible headcanon of mine, my mind was no where near thinking of a headcanon to even get there.

Laughter. A kid with bright blond hair running towards a village, a house. A pair of eldery couple came out to greet the young child.

I know that’s not Konoha. And I know that kid is me/not-me/Naruto.

It’s really interesting how I can remember it so clearly, compare to my dream memories that are faded at the edge, blurry. I think that’s why I see that as a exomemories. There’s too much other sensation, the sight clear, the sound loud, and maybe scent? You also see I had momentary confusion between the self pronoun there. That was the spark for me to ponder if it may be a kardiatype that was later disregarded, as while important to me, my Naruto hearttype wasn’t a foundational building block of who I am. I also don’t know if Kurama was with that Naruto. But here is where noemata comes in.

I have a lot, and a lot of noemata. Things I just know in my gut. Maybe for my fictomere they are influenced by the source material as well as fandom interpretation. But still. Headcanon and imagined story in my head had this ethereal feeling, like they are not all there, much more pliable, but also more distant from me.

My Naruto hearttype has a Kurama with him. And has a far strong tie to Uzushio. I don’t know if Uzushio was around, maybe that’s why that little bit of exomemory, that Naruto wasn’t in any place recognizable. It look like a random village, all wood hut. Maybe those are Uzushio people.

I think that is true.

A lot of the times, noemata just pops out of nowhere. Or sometimes, I ask questions, and something within me will answer. And I will know. It is why when I assist others in self discovery, I will ask questions, and the “no”’s and “maybe”’s are just as valuable as “yes”’s.

Sometimes you don’t even have to ask questions, something external will trigger and you had that lightbulb turning on moment. Like how I realized that three-tailed kitsune is specific is my Naruto hearttype’s paratype, and how my Aurelion Sol is the 5th concept version that people dub the “unbounded” form. Or that my kardiatype’s guarded village was one that was in ancient Japan, not one of the well known period people likes to talk about.

My own style of self discovery is very lax, “follow the flow” style, however. I got a lot of noemata jumpscare this way.

Like how out of the thousands of pokemon, it was Mew that resonated with me and become a archetrope, instead of say, dragonite or ditto.

Like I somehow figured out I’m not neccessary flying so much that I’m floating. Like how Mew does. Or that I don’t breath any elemental attack. Or the various detail discovery with each and every one of my forms, how the aquatic form have far more different physics than many of my other forms (shark head, sonar receptive ears, quill feather on back though that’s more from phantom shift than pure noemata, turtle flipper though that’s more a empathy moment from playing Ark Survive Evolved and seeing how the magmasaur’s hind leg moves), how I’m just certain that the dream dragon kintype is a present thing, current life thing.

It gets harder and harder to tell if some noemata are purely random, or maybe born from the churning of internal contemplation that always accompanied the discussion on alterhumanity within the community. Like when I figure that I do not eat physical substance, or how I know I as a dragon is a spirit, sort of like youkai and kami, sort of a energy being, sort of a pokemon like creature, a rpg monster.

Regardless of exomemories, noemata that are from random chances or from deliberately triggered knowledge, or created memories or personal “canon”, these are all the breadcrumbs of one’s alterhumanity, all important, all precious.

[1] You’re Here to Make Moments, Not Memories

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/youre-here-to-make-moments-not-memories-249970eed41f

[brainkeeper-service]

Kardiatype/Empeiríatype (link) Symbol

（✟）— definition . . .

[pt: definition /end pt]

A past life which experiences had such an impact on you that it formed your core identiy and personality even to this day in such a way that it differs from your past life identity/personality therefor making you NOT identifying as the being from your past life anymore.

Please note that this term wasn't coined by me; I simply made a symbol for the already existing definition.

（✟）— more about the symbol . . .

[pt: more about the symbol /end pt]

My thought process while making the symbol was to make it similar to otherkin, as it can be past life related as well, but to not copy the 7/3 heptagram. That's why i picked a hexagon, and a 7/2 heptagram (note: The Star of David has 6 points; this one has 7)To mark the "core" of identity, i picked a heart, as it often symbolizes one's soul and identity. To emphasize it further, I put a dot in The Middle. The corners in the heart are simply there because it felt Empty.

（✟）— tags . . .

[pt: tags /end pt]

0 1 . — @daybreakthing, @boingogender, @monarchenwinter

0 2 . — @aspectsofidentity, @radiomogai, @alterhumanflags, @kin-flags

[vocalux]

hAII! I'm just here to promote some sites (carrds, etc.) with explanations of alterhumans terms! They are good sites with (probably) easy-to-understand explanations! (so you don't have to search sm for the websites!)(possibly in alphabetical order)(some terms are not that well known)(tell me if you want other term here!)

ALTERHUMAN // NONHUMAN ↓ ( rlate / others.. )

Alterhuman Types Carrd

Alterhuman ( More Therian and Shifts

Aldernic Site

Alteraffectis Post

Altervexo Carrd

Amistelic ) Amistera Post

Anchorbeing Post

Animaive Post

Archetrope Post

Concerare Post

Casshuman ) Cassbeing Post

Cirrie ) Cir Post

Constelic Site

CopingLink Site

Dimenell Post

Eiment Post

Emportulum Post

Endel Carrd

Eulovia Post

Factkin Site

Fenikae ) Fenixal ) Fenixic Carrd

Fictionflixic Post

Fictionflicker Post

Fictionkin Site

Fictionodium Post

Gravistelic Post

Hearthic Post

Humanmore ) Overhuman

Icosahuman ) Multialtertype

Identimore Post

Infirope Post

Kardiatype Post

Kerbero Post

Kin Link Post

Likeness Post

Linosus Post

Musisonar ) Echosonar ) Vibrisonar ) Sonar Post

Nubil Post

Oggerare Post

Otherdition Post

Otherfix ) Fixtype Post

Otherflicker Post

Otherhearted Site

Otherodium Post

Otherspirit Post

Prehistan Carrd

Quixoris ) Quixote Post

Quoihuman Post

Root Post

Teohuman Post

Vior Post

I'll update this if i find moree!